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Book of the Week – Fashion Game Changers: Reinventing the 20th-Century Silhouette by Karen Van Godtsenhoven

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We all love fashion but have we ever tried to compare the trends of the present to the ones of the past? Fashion Game Changers is the book that traces the radical changes that occurred in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century up until now.

From Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga who started liberating women from the close-fitting forms that took over European and American fashion to Rei Kawakubo and Martin Margiela whose avant-gardist vision developed the ideas of their predecessors and led them to defy the notion of femininity, this book displays all the phases of development in the fashion world.

More than 200 images and comments from international leading fashion curators and historians are featured in this beautiful work, including some of the most revolutionary and innovative designs fashion has witnessed for over 100 years.

 

Mirella Haddad